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Russel Tarr considers key issues from the life of the famous Cardinal.

Russel Tarr asks key questions about the religious radicals of the 16th century.

C.M. Yonge shows how, during the nineteenth century, the British public began to take a keen interest in the wonders of their native beaches.

Russell Tarr sees similarities but also important contrasts in the foreign policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

Russell Tarr explains how the Bolsheviks established their grip on Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and at what cost.

A manager of men and a master of contemporary politics, writes Esmond Wright, Dundas was Pitt's energetic colleague “during the most critical years in Britis

John Wesley spent two years as a chaplain in Georgia in the 1730s; Stuart Andrews describes how forty years later he was much preoccupied with the

Mark Rathbone analyses the causes and consequences of sudden changes of policy in nineteenth-century British politics.

Were the fifties a dull decade? Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson has the answer.

Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of history can be hard to predict.

J.A.R. Pimlott studies the development of the Christmas Spirit—from Pagan Saturnalia to Victorian family party

What voting rights did Britons have in the century before 1918?

The House of Lords, often in the shadow of the Commons, asserted its power during the reigns of James I and his son, Charles I.

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her yo

A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? Seven leading historians seek to define social history.